Word: wilbert
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...both schools test far below the state average in reading, and their scores since the 220-day year began have improved only marginally. "My kids can't read the way they ought to," says Ellenese Brooks-Simms, the principal of Moton school. Brooks- Simms and her counterpart at Lockett, Wilbert Dunn, are trying to put even more emphasis on reading instruction by cutting time spent on gym, music and other activities...
...surprisingly, the most persuasive proselytizers for sustainable agriculture are those who have profited by it. Since 1981, Wilbert Blumhardt and his son Glenn have been fighting erosion on their 3,000-acre spread near Bowdle, S. Dak., by planting wheat, sunflowers, soybeans and corn in fields littered by the debris from earlier harvests. "That trash," says Wilbert, "serves an important purpose. It helps feed the soil, and it allows the water to soak in and not wash off into lakes and streams." Last year the Blumhardts' fields produced an average of 27 bu. of wheat an acre, 30% more than...
...month. Because she was raped, newspapers and TV stations have generally refrained from using her name. "If she had merely been beaten and left for dead," Elliott notes, "she would have been named." One journal that did name the jogger was the black-oriented Amsterdam News. Editor in chief Wilbert Tatum argues that the city's mainstream press is guilty of hypocrisy for guarding the identity of a well-to-do white woman while it "stigmatized" the lower-class black youths accused of raping her by naming them even before they were indicted...